Thursday July 8, 2010

1st Annual Ignominious Film Gala!

An evening of short films from Arizona student filmmakers.

ONLY $5!

Live music by UNDERGROUND CITIES ( http://www.myspace.com/atteouc ), stand-up by GREG TIDROW and GENEVIEVE RICE, Live DJs and MORE.

More details to follow.

(All are encouraged to meet before and after at Casey Moore's on Ash and University for drinks)

Buy your tickets now! https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/117657

This week at Black Pearl Poetry Tempe Thursday:

Music to chill to, come in, text your friends and tell them to come out.

OPEN MIC- Your mic, Your rules. Come share your poems (it is still national poetry month), rhymes, songs, lyrics, stories, whatever ya got!

ASU SunDevil Feature- Your ASU Sun Devil Slam Team is BACK and made it to the semifinals at Collegiate National Poetry Slam, finishing 9th in the nation!

So you can see what they did to rock the mic in Boston, PATRICK, KATE, and DISHA are all featuring this Thursday night at Black Pearl Poetry showcasing the incredible pieces they performed at Collegiate Nationals!

Bring friends, bring money, bring poems, bring smiles!

And Ed Mabrey will be back in the building hosting this week!

Let's have some fun!

The film is the creation of four friends -- Susan and Peter Culp, Jocelyn Gibbon and Sam Jansen -- who undertook a six-month journey in 2009 to visit all of Arizona's state parks; see what they had to offer; and learn what they and all Arizonans could do to sustain them into the future.

“Our odyssey began at a time of crisis in our state parks system,” said Susan Culp, a long-time conservation advocate and member of the Governor’s Sustainable State Parks Task Force. “A decade of starvation funding crippled the agency’s capital budget for maintenance and repairs and additional budget cuts, due to the “Great Recession” of the past two years, have nearly dealt a death blow to our state parks system.”

The four filmed and photographed each parks’ natural, historical, and cultural amenities. They interviewed leading Arizona citizens, park managers, visitors, and volunteers. They collected reports, studies, and facts about the economic and social benefits of state parks to local communities, regions, and the state as a whole.

After the showing of the film, a community dialogue led by Arizona Humanities Council Scholar, Vincent Murray, will follow.

School’s out and what better way to “beat the heat” than to join the Summer Movie Madness at MADCAP Theaters, starting June 2 through August 6. Families can purchase a 10 week pass to see G and PG rated films for just $7.00 or pay $2.00 for individual screenings. This is also a great field trip for camps, daycares, schools, and groups

A comic catch from the studio that brought you Shrek, Shark Tale is a hilarious hit and "a wonderful under-the-sea adventure for movie lovers of all ages!" (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood)

Oscar (Will Smith), a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian shark, Lenny (Jack Black), and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it’s up to Oscar’s loyal friend Angie (Renée Zellweger) and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared shark in the water (Robert De Niro) and find his true place in the reef.

THURSDAY, JULY 8 - FREE ICE CREAM FROM BLUE BELL FROM 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM